ALPHA STREAM

"THE WARRIOR OF THE SUN"

CHAPTER 3: Aoi waking up to a new day prepares all his things and changes , hurriedly goes to the cafeteria for breakfast since they serve it as well. as he goes to the cafeteria he noticed that as students came passed him they looked at him and some even whispered thing while looking at him but he didn't mind at all. A little while later class begun and Aoi found the classroom he was assigned a little while longer after the first call for all students to get in their classrooms.

"sorry I'm late i was lost and couldn't find my way aroun-"

then a familiar voice caught his attention "well if it isn't Aoi what brings you here?"

"miss satsuki?, why are you here ?"

"don't bring out the same question twice it's a hassle, (sigh) well I'm the home room teacher of this class as it's really obvious, back to you, why are you here again?"

"umm this was the classroom i was assigned to actually "

"oh yeah forgot, shizuka said you were coming, (ahem) class this is..."

she then points at him

"I'm the new transfer student the name is Aoi Kakuzaki please to meet you."

seeing him everyone started to whisper to one another while looking at him. then one student asked him

"you're the guy that perfectly passed the entrance exam and defeated miss satsuki ,right?"

"uhhhh...yeah.."

replying to the student's question, Aoi looked at satsuki and ended up being scared of her expression, she got flustered and looked at the students and said

"y-yeah but ill make sure to turn this classroom inside out if all of you don't know your place and be quiet"

everyone became silent the moment they heard that. the only thing that can be heard was the aircons in the room.

after the students behaved, she folded her arms and faced Aoi with a grim could be translated as : one more word and i swear you will never see the light of day again, then said to him, "now since your very late take the seat at the back, since it's the only one available for the moment."

"except for the seat in front of him...where could she be"

beginning to wonder why one of her students was absent.

"sigh...why out of all the days. she never this late."

" thank you miss satsuki"

taking his seat he began to notice the empty seat in front of him but didn't care enough to know. As class ended for break time he went to the cafeteria to buy some lunch it took him a hard time to find a seat since it was a bit too crowded

"at this rate I'm going to be late again for not eating lunch, wonder if there is a door to the rooftop?"

luckily he found it a little while later and went to the top.

"this is the life..."

said Aoi while he feels the cool breeze in his face,

"just hoping if all of this will really work out though, even with all the problems that's been circulating around me (sigh)"

saying that while eating his lunch.

few moments later the first call of students began and as for Aoi, he was lost again in the building. with only a little bit of knowledge of the school hallways, he was like a rat in a huge maze.

"why does this building have to be this big"

"well for starters this is my fault. i didn't really expect less from the AS academy"

then a girl with long crimson red hair having eyes of bright yellow happened to see him wandering around the hallway when all students happened to be in their rooms. being suspicious she chased after the student wandering around.

still wondering about the hallways he finally admitted it.

"great now I'm totally lost could they at least made directions on where the classrooms are rather than-"

then he hears someone calling out to him at the same time hearing running footsteps in the hallway just at his back.

"hey! YOU!"

he sees a girl saying that while running towards him. out of instincts Aoi ran as fast as he can, both of them began chasing each other.

after some time of chasing he saw a familiar corner.

"wait i know this part turn left then-"

interrupted by the mysterious girl he immediately ran left and saw the classroom and opened it.

"finall-"

before he could continue he was suddenly put to the ground, stomped in the in class was got off their seat and watched the commotion.

"who are you and why were you wandering the hallway while class has already begun huh?"

saying that while pressing Aoi on the floor.

"whoa... look, it's the new guy and Reika"

said one of the students looking at them.

hearing that he began to stop struggling and forced himself to look at the person on top of him.

"Reika? you mean Reika natsuhara?"

"yes! that's my name and answer me, who are you?" demanded reika

"Aoi-Aoi Kakuzaki" said Aoi while being crushed by Reika

hearing that name she began to back away from him.

"W-W-WHAT?"

"its been a long time Reika" greeted Aoi as he picked himself up and turned his head to see her.

"A-A-Aoi K-K-Kakuzaki" said reika as the whole class saw her face turned red and started to feel embarrassed on what she did.

feeling a little bit irritated of the situation she again looks at both of them with the expression she showed the whole class earlier.

"alright that's enough ,all of you get back to your seats"

after saying that all of them went to their seats. then slowly reika took her seat in front of Aoi. after apologizing to satsuki why she was absent for half the day.

as the class went on with their lecture Aoi now knows why the seat in front of him was not occupied.

"so you're the student in the vacant seat in front of me that explains just about it."

"uhhhhh yeah."replied Reika.

soon after it was time for the dismissal of the students and some started to head to their dorms. preparing his things to move he walks right passed reika then stopped.

"hey Reika wanna walk together to the dormitory it goin to a long walk" said Aoi

having said that Reika immediately agreed to him with no hesitation what-so-ever then she started to blush a little,"walk with him to the dorm ,whats happening?"

short time later they walked outside the building and as they walked toward the dormitory Aoi noticed some students staring at them and whispering.

"why are they looking at us, I don't see anything wrong,what do they see in us, as couples?"

"don't know but lets not mind them." explained Reika "but i don't mind us being called couples, though"

"ok".

with nothing to say she just said the only thing that she just heard a few days ago. just to keep the atmosphere alive between them.

"have you heard a rumor about a new transfer student who got a perfect score on the entrance exam and beat the instructor?"

hearing that he got startled about it. but not showing it to her.

"could that be you?" asked Reika.

with no choice left he mumbly answered her.

"well...yeah"

with that she looks at him.

"that could explain everything"

hearing that both of them laughed. after that the atmosphere between them began to liven up and they continued to talk about other stuff. then reika brought up a topic about his surprised arrival in the academy.

"just out of curiosity, who was your instructor?"asked Reika

"oh it was our home room teacher,miss satsuki" replied Aoi

with Aoi saying that she stopped from their walk and stared at him blankly.

"M-M-Miss satsuki"

then she begins to shout out to him.

"THE miss satsuki!"

surprised on her reaction he was curious.

"whoa why the sudden outburst she's just an instructor"

with no knowledge about the whole school yet she explains to him while showing a frustrated look.

"JUST AN INSTRUCTOR?, she has the highest ranking in AS combat skill than all the other staff and you just call her, instructor? no one has ever beaten her with her AS the Divine retribution, until now."

"well, she didnt mention that, but i guess it really made sense now. i was really surprised myself that she told me that she lost to me for the first time in her career as a teacher."

"(sigh) your still the same Aoi i know back then, now i really know why your being stared at."

then she remebers another thing still focusing on the surprise victory.

"i was wondering what type of AS do you have"

"well its kinda complicated to know what it is. it would be probably better if I show you, it's over by the cartridge chamber in the arena."

as Aoi tries to shoe her his AS, he grabs reika by the hand.

"what are you doing le-"

she stopped on what she was saying and realized the warmth of Aoi's hand

"I never knew his hands were this warm... I wish we could stay like this."

feeling the grip of Aoi's hand she set up to in the moment of their reunion. after a few moments of reaching the arena they went in the center battlefield towards the cartridge chamber.

" well here we are ,c'mon its over by this corner" said Aoi still holding reika's hand.

after making it, Aoi stopped in front of the chamber blankly. he then turns to look at reika.

"ummmmmm... question: how to activate the cartridge chamber?"

"you brought me here to see your AS but you don't even know how to open the chamber?"

"well i told you I'm just new"

then she shows Aoi the manual controls of the chamber.

"okay, the controls are here on the side it should be easy for you to find it."

"what was the name of your AS again?"

"its Requiem"

after entering its name to the keypad, the cartridge began to open up and turn.

while waiting for the Requiem he then starts up his own conversation.

"so... umm how did you ended up enrolling to this school?"

the cartridge took some time to get the Requiem so they had time to talk.

"well my father became the vice-president of a huge company in Okinawa a few years back and had me made an AS cuz the company he works for makes the AS type INTERCEPTOR. back then the company was almost at the edge of being bankrupt then my father gave a brilliant suggestion on new designs and the whole company was in his debt."

hearing that he also shared part of his misery.

"it explains why you left middle school...I gotta admit it the moment you left, I kinda felt lonely ,you know having to got to middle school without your best friend... it felt awkward for me"

said Aoi while watching the blank air.

surprised on his part she looked surprised.

"Y-Y-Y-You were?!"

"yeah."

then she starts to blush...again

"I-I-I-I tried to tell my dad that I wanted t-t-to stay in middle school with you but he insisted me to come here cuz it was for my studies and for the sole reason that I had my own AS at that time"

hearing reika out he began to snap out of it.

"I'm not complaining about it I was just wondering how or why you left that's all no need to be shaken up"

still on the topic ,Aoi got curious to what AS she had.

"by the way what type of AS do you have anyway?"

"it's an INTERCEPTOR the first new model this year, my dad had it gone through yearly upgrades"

"ohhhh, talk about headaches. gotta be a hassle right?"

"wanna see it?"

"yeah, why not"

"o-o-okay then" said reika as she hides her glowing red face from Aoi.

finally the cartridge stopped and showed the AS they've been looking for. then Aoi points towards it.

"well ,there it is the REQUIEM"

seeing it she expected more from it but it didn't, but she gave a confusing look towards his AS instead.

" it this really your AS?"

"looks kinda old for an AS don't you think hard to imagine this beat miss satsuki."

"what type is it?" asked reika

reika bringing up that question, all he did was just shrugged at her.

"cant really say for sure what it is."

as it stood in front of them ,Aoi opened the AS and went inside started to turn it on but it took a while for it to start though as Aoi was still fitting his hands inside the port holes. finally after that he started it and started to move it.

" well gotta admit, its harder to pilot it than how it looks from the point of view of others watching" said Aoi while inside the AS.

"now its my turn"

reika then types in the name of her AS. after a few moments later her AS showed up and went inside it immediately.

"so that's your AS...amazing"

while inside the requiem he looks at reika's AS that was like the AS of satsuki having wheel propelled heels and the same height but it was very different in color, this one was white but having some parts of it like the shoulder and the top part of the head and its heels colored in three colors merely orange , red , and black. it was equipped with a samurai helmet with one sharp blade at its head and the face visor was formed in a Y formation, and its pauldron was floating just inches above the shoulder part it was also customized samurai themed cover .

"t-t-thanks." said reika being flattered.

"so whats it called?"

"it's named as Taiyō no senshi. meaning warrior of the sun."

then both started to move outside and into the arena and gone to separate ends of it but as they did they heard someone called out to them.

"HEY!,HEY! BOTH OF YOU STOP!"

both of them were surprised and at the same time surprised as they saw it was satsuki.

"who gave you permission to be in this arena when it's about time for you to go to your dorm rooms?" asked satsuki.

" i was just showing her Requiem." replied Aoi

"and he asked me if he could see mine miss satsuki" said reika.

seeing their home room teacher at the arena at a time like this, Aoi wondered why.

"what are YOU also doing here ms. satsuki."

hearing that she answered them plainly, as if she already know that they were already about to say it.

"i was asked by shizuka to check on the Requiem's armor plating if it was what she estimated, what it says here is that the requiem's armor plating is titanium or adamantine, but she still insists if its true, so you don't mind if could check it?"

as satsuki's explained reika heard something that caught her attention.

"W-W-Wait a minute you also know Shizuka miyami?"

"the same Shizuka that is the co-founder of the AS project?"

Aoi on the other hand answered her like the person satsuki's talking about is just an average person.

"yeah"

reika hearing that she was totally blown away.

"how did you know her?"

Aoi, then recalls his meeting with shizuka, from where he got the requiem.

"it's a long story."

"can we pace this up,i still have a lot of work to do after this,"

after some moments checking up on the requiem she came got the results.

"i knew it , it's not what shizuka estimated ,the requiem its made of "OSMIUM" it's no wonder when the DIVINE RETRIBUTION fired at it had no effect. even though it had no shield on."

"OSMIUM?"asked Aoi

"Yeah, OSMIUM, hardest and rarest metal known to earth , your AS is the only one with it, others are just made from titanium and since its not enough, it depends on the plasma shield ,while your it's only depending on its armor plating making Requiem a hard AS to take down "

"whoever built the requiem really wanted this thing to take all the hurt and dish out a very good comeback."

surprised to know some facts about the requiem, all he could do was to be impressed.

"whoa, so that's what its made of."

"talk about endurance. this thing could even send out some real punishment."

after taking the results satsuki gathered up all the things she took out and tidied herself up.

"well you guys better get moving before the headmaster finds out your here. then were all going to be in big trouble."

taking satsuki's instructions they placed their AS in the cartridge chamber and started to pack their things.

"yeah" said both of them.

then they left the arena with satsuki still in it. after going out of the arena they continued to head out towards the dorms. after a while they began to liven up the atmosphere

"didn't know your AS was that old and that tough"

"well yeah, maybe... i don't know...i just happen to find it two days ago in a beach near my apartment so i don't really have that much info out of it, the only thing i know is that it was a lost model dug up by the daughter of the miyami family and only i can activate it."

hearing that reika saw an opening, then she started to look down as if starting to get shy.

"i-i-if you want i could train you on how to use it"

with reika saying that to him, he couldn't help but to be grateful.

"really?! you would do that" said Aoi.

reika on the other hand was really flattered for him to accept her offer.

"y-y-yeah why not, i mean, your still at basics on your AS and i've had experience already in combat and its important for you to know how to properly pilot one"

"thank you so much Reika"

with that, she decides to what time both of them are going to do.

"we start tomorrow noon after class , okay?"

"okay"

as the two reached the dorms they parted along the way, reika is off the girls dorm while Aoi headed the boys dorm.

"Reika!" shouted Aoi

and reika turned to see him if he was the one shouting and saw Aoi watching her with the face he put on back when they were at middle school.

"GOOD NIGHT" was the last thing Aoi said as he passes the entrance to the boys dorm.

reika on the other hand turned red again and looked against him and walked in the entrance,"h-h-he said good night to me...me!"

"but that face...its what he used to make to me after class."

said reika. as reika enters her room she says "good night to you too, Aoi".